Formulación de un modelo metodológico para la implementación del Plan Institucional de Gestión Ambiental - PIGA - en los CEAD y CERES de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD

Across the seventh aim of development, the Declaration of the Millenium incorporated the environmental sustainability inside the priorities. Its incorporation was given in recognition not only of the intrinsic value of the environment, but also of his importance for the overcoming of the poverty, the health, the equality of kind and other components of the human well-being.

The National Open University and Distance UNAD, in the first article of the environmental policy as established that will be tended by the constant improvement of the environmental conditions in his facilities, raising standards of health and well-being of the community by implementing responsible of the laws, the contribution to the formation distantly and in virtual environments, research, the social projection and the management in aspects related to the good managing of the headquarters of the Institution, the efficient use of the resources, the recycling and the reutilization of the materials, and the treatment and the suitable disposition of the residues.

The School of Agricultural Sciences, Livestock and the Environment (ECAPMA) of Pitalito CEAD, in compliance with these legal and institutional mandates, with the support of Siuna, is crafting a methodological model for the implementation of Environmental Management Institutional Plan (PIGA ) in the CEAD and is a contribution to the CEAD, CERES and the UNAD CCAV.

Three specific objectives: To characterize the physical environment—chemical, biotic and social— economical to assess the external environmental conditions of the institution; Identification and environmental impact assessment to assess the environmental conditions inside the institution and Analyze the use and management of water resources, solid waste, electricity, supplies, within the Bank for review and consideration within the PIGA programs.

With the use of four techniques of research: observation, survey, analysis of secondary information and primary information, applies the inductive method, which allows us to draw general conclusions about something particular. Through analysis of information, for each of the resources, constitute PIGA programs and indicators are identified